Why prestige? What good does that do for those of us who don't use bases?
The original idea for the Prestige Buy was an influence/infamy sink for supergroup members.
It failed, massively. The price just wasn't worth it at all.
The game needs more influence and infamy sinks, not Vanguard Merit sinks.
-Rachel-
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Why prestige? What good does that do for those of us who don't use bases?
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None whatsoever, and it might not even show up as an option for people not in SGs. You can also buy customizable weapon options with v. merits, which I imagine isn't helping most Defenders, Corruptors, Dominators or Controllers very much. Not everything benefits everyone.
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The game needs more influence and infamy sinks, not Vanguard Merit sinks.
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I've spent several million inf on Prestige for my small SG. And I've spent quite a few hours of my time farming for more inf and prestige for it. It's painfully boring and I'm not very efficient, but I don't want to invite people I don't know into the group. Of the people I do know, many are active with their own existing SGs. So while they may 'donate' an alt or two, as I have to some of theirs, the benefit isn't to my rate of prestige gain.
While I'm not that great of a farmer, however, I'm pretty good at participating in and even leading TFs and raids. I'd like the opportunity to spend some of the credit I earn doing things like that on prestige. It seems both thematically logical and reasonably balanced.
/signed. It seems like a reasonable suggestion and you bring up good points.
The fact that we don't need a Vanguard Merit sink isn't really a good point. We don't need a lot of the features we get.
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Why prestige? What good does that do for those of us who don't use bases?
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What's your point?
The vet reward system awards decorative base items, and the only people that use them are the few people that have base architect permissions.
Accolades only benefit people that earned the badges.
Gladiators only benefit people that play Arena Gladiator matches.
Vanguard merits only benefit characters that have gome thru the RWZ arcs.
There're lots of things in the game that get used by only a portion of the playerbase.
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Why prestige? What good does that do for those of us who don't use bases?
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None whatsoever, and it might not even show up as an option for people not in SGs. You can also buy customizable weapon options with v. merits, which I imagine isn't helping most Defenders, Corruptors, Dominators or Controllers very much. Not everything benefits everyone.
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Mmhmm.. archery and assault rifle... but the weapons aren't the only thing v merits are good for. They have an entire costume set involved and temp powers...
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The vet reward system awards decorative base items, and the only people that use them are the few people that have base architect per missions.
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Can you trade them to players with bases? Would that even make sense?
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Accolades only benefit people that earned the badges.
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Uh... accolades are comparable to free costume tokens how?
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Gladiators only benefit people that play Arena Gladiator matches.
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Uh... gladiatorss are comparable to free costume tokens how?
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Vanguard merits only benefit characters that have gone thru the RWZ arcs.
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I wouldn't mind seeing a conversion for v merits since they can accumulate so vastly, but have no bearing one way or the other.
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There're lots of things in the game that get used by only a portion of the playerbase.
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But through new issues and vet rewards you can accumulate a lot of costume tokens with no effort at all whereas all the other points, save for base items, require some effort.
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Mmhmm.. archery and assault rifle... but the weapons aren't the only thing v merits are good for. They have an entire costume set involved and temp powers...
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And I don't want to take any of that away. Purely an additional option. So! You'll five-star the topic now?
socioalchemist, I don't understand your point. What does it matter if everyone will use them or not?
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The vet reward system awards decorative base items, and the only people that use them are the few people that have base architect per missions.
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Can you trade them to players with bases?
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Yes you can.
An SG leader invites you to his/her SG and gives you temporary permission to decorate his/her base, then you click Add Personal Items and place whatever base item vet rewards you agreed to give him. Once those items are placed in the base the SG's base architect can move them and place them wherever they want.
I've helped dozens of people decorate their bases this way.
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Accolades only benefit people that earned the badges. Gladiators only benefit people that play Arena Gladiator matches.
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Uh... gladiatorss and Accolades are comparable to free costume tokens how? . . . But through new issues and vet rewards you can accumulate a lot of costume tokens with no effort at all whereas all the other points, save for base items, require some effort.
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Read the OP's post. He's talking about converting Vanguard Merits to prestige points. No one in this thread has suggested trading in costume tokens for prestige. Free costume tokens weren't even a topic in this discussion until you brought them up.
It's quite possible to generate a pretty large stack of, say, Vanguard Merits -- far beyond what you might want to use. Which got me thinking... Vanguard's a big organization, right? They could probably do a little endorsement and pay off big for a Super Group. Why not allow Vanguard merits to be exchanged for Prestige?
Right now we have Merits, Vanguard Merits, MA tickets, and Bounty. Of those, I think Vanguard Merits and Bounty would definitely be appropriate for additional 'prestige buy' choices, tied as they are to in-game organizations. The other two may not be as much, although I would certainly not object to their implementation.
As far as cost scaling goes, I think V.Merits should work on a base 1:8 scale for prestige -- so the buy option might be something like, "250 V. Merits for 2000 Prestige." Bounty's a little bit easier to come by, so perhaps a 1:1 scale on that (although if so, I'd like to see buyout options starting around 500 or 1000 -- because while easier to come by, it isn't persistent).